How close...

[Eli Jack]

... can a gas giant be to a star?

Last night I happened across a Class III Gas Giant that is only 13.3ls distance from its star. Never saw one this close before.

Is this within the realm of scientific feasability?

Anyone seen a GG any closer than this?

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Also despite blue being the predominant colour of Helium/Hydrogen GGs this one is brown.

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[ThirdNostril]

Yeah you'll come across these now and then. Hot Jupiter is the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Jupiter

[video=youtube;u6n4wrp9MGw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6n4wrp9MGw[/video]

 

[Whiterose]

I had one less than 10. Piccies to follow once I have returned.

 

[Patau82]

there's one in the bubble at ross 780 it has a quite a high orbital eccentricity, it was at its closest point to star last week end (It's actually half in the star at this point) unfortunately I forgot and missed it , it has an orbital period of 30 days so I'm going to have to wait 3 weeks for it to get back to its lowest point, will announce it on forum if I remember!

 

[Krunchie]

This one is pretty damn close.

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Edit: 5 ls or less, don't remember exactly.

 

[Eli Jack]

Yeah you'll come across these now and then. Hot Jupiter is the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Jupiter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6n4wrp9MGw

Thanks for that, didn't know about such things.

This one is pretty damn close.

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Edit: 5 ls or less, don't remember exactly.

Closer than the one I found for sure.

 

[Alex Traut]

This one was <5ls from its primary also:

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I just barely managed to squeeze between them in SC.